Bottle



J. MORRISON BOTTLE Oct. 23, 1928. 1,688,397)

Filed Afi 4, 1925 \NVENTOE Hi6 H TTOR/VE Y Patented Oct. 23, 1928.

UNITED STATES 1,688,396 PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES MORRISON, OF TOLEDO, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE OWENS BOTTLE COMPANY, OF

TOLEDO, OHIO, .A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

BOTTLE.

Application filed August 4, 1925. Serial No. 48,079.

My invention relates to improvements in bottles or other containers for liquids and,

more particularly, to means for preventing drippings from running down the outside surface of the container. In dispensing liquids from the usual forms of bottles or like containers, a certain amount of the contents or drippings will frequently run down the neck and sides of the container. T1118 1s objectionable for various reasons, among which are gumming or mussing up the bottle, staining and disfiguring the bottle, obhterating labels or printed directlons, destroylng or corroding the metal or other caps used as closures for the bottles and staining or in uring the hands, particularly where vaclds are dispensed.

An object of my invention 1s to provlde simple and practical means to overcome the above and other objections by preventing such drippings from running down the sides of the container.

The invention is herein shown in connection with a sprinkler type of bottle having a restricted outlet orifice for dispensing the contents of the container drop by drop, or 1n the form of a spray. Obviously, however, the invention may be adapted to various other forms of containers.

Other features of the invention will appear hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of a bottle constructed in accordance with my invention.

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the same.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary sectional elevation taken on Figure 1 at the plane of the line A-A.

Referring to thedrawings, a bottle 3 1s provided with a head 4 surrounding the'neck and making a seat for the usual cap which is assembled over the screw threads 6. A peripheral groove 5 is formed in the upper face or top surface 7 and surrounds the outlet opening 8. It will be noted that the upper face portion 7 is constituted 'of two parts, viz,-a central or insular portion bounded by the groove 5, and a ledge 9, of somewhat higher elevation than said central or insular portion, the former serving as a pouring lip over which the contents run while issuing from the container.

It will be apparentthat by having the aforesaid ledge 9 disposed around the circumference of the upper surface 7 and a groove 5,

in juxtaposition thereto, very effective means from running down the sides of a container.

By forming the peripheral groove 5 in the top surface of the bottle neck, the ledge 9 is spaced from the insular portion 7 so that the latter serves as a pouring lip over which the contents pass when the container is inverted. Accordingly, the highest point of the ledge 9, seldom, if ever, contacts with the contents while the latter is being poured from the container. Thus it is seen that drippings will not run down the sides of the container and such of the drippings as do not return to the interior of the container by gravity will be retained in the peripheral groove 5 and enclosed by a ca (not shown) which may be threaded upont 1e container neck.

' Modifications may be resorted to within the spirit and scope of my invention.

What I claim is:

1. A bottle comprising a neck portion havinga transverse wall at its outer end, said wall formed with a restricted aperture and an annular groove concentric with the aperture in the outer face of the wall, the outer wall of said groove being of higher elevation than the remaining portion surrounding the aperture.

2. A container, including a neck portion having a horizontally disposed upper face formed. with a central aperture, a peripheral groove, and an outer ledge of slightly higher elevation than said upper face, for the purpose of the elimination of side drippings.

3. A container, including a neck portion having a horizontally disposed upper face, formed with an upwardly projecting ledge of higher elevation than the latter and disposed around the perimeter thereof as a barrier to the egress of drippings as said bottle is reverted in use to its normal upright position said upper face also formed with a groove in juxtaposition with, and substantially the same contour as said ledge, said upper surface further formed with an outlet aperture down which an overflow of drippings from said groove is disposed by gravity action, the edge of the aperture. acting as a pouring lip.

4. A bottle comprising a neck portion having a restricted central aperture, the top surface of the neck portion comprising an intermediate annular surface portion surrounding said aperture, an annular groove sur rounding said surface portion, and an annular ledge surrounding the groove and forming the periphery of said top surface, the inner wall of said ledge forming the outer wall of said groove, said intermediate surface being at a slightly lower level than the top sur-- 15 face of said ledge, said ledge being so positioned relative to thecentral aperture that in the normal operation of pouring a liquid from the bottle, said liquid will not come in contact with said ledge.

Signed at Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, this 1st day of August,

JAMES MORRISON. 

